Our Team

John Vlastelica, Founder and Managing Director

John Vlastelica draws from over 15 years of recruiting experience, including seven years as a corporate recruiting leader and five years as a recruitment management consultant and trainer. He was a Recruiting Director at Amazon.com and the engineering recruiting leader for two start-up divisions of McCaw/AT&T Wireless. Now, he focuses 100 percent on helping other companies improve their in-house recruiting capabilities.

Through Recruiting Toolbox and his work as a Principal with Riviera Advisors, he's provided training and recruitment management consulting services to companies of all shapes and sizes, including leading organizations in high-tech, bio-tech, healthcare, financial services, and retail. John has shared his expertise with colleagues as an entertaining and credible repeat presenter at regional and national recruiting conferences (including ERE Expo, Kennedy, AIRS Symposiums, and SHRM's Staffing Management conferences), through online webinars, and as an instructor for the Strategic Talent Acquisition Roundtable Leadership Academies.

He is also an author of several popular recruiting white papers and work published in two books on staffing best practices, and writes for his blog, Recruiting Toolbox. John was a four-term President of the Staffing Management Association of Seattle, which draws 250-300 people to its conferences. John has also served several terms on the board of Washington State's largest SHRM chapter, and in 2006 received the Distinguished Member Award from the 7,000-plus member Northwest Human Resource Management Association. He graduated magna cum laude, and first in his class, with a degree in business from Western Washington University.

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Edith Rothenberg, Senior Trainer

Edith Rothenberg joined Recruiting Toolbox with more than 17 years of experience in recruiting, management, and training at a number of Fortune 500 companies. She began her recruiting career at Citicorp in New York, but spent the majority of her corporate recruiting career - more than 9 years - at Microsoft, where she recruited for key roles, built and managed recruiting teams, and developed and deployed interview training and new recruiter training programs across the organization.  Edith also created and organized Microsoft's annual Recruiting Symposium, which brought together recruiting staff from around the world. 

In 2002, Edith started consulting and has since worked with high tech, non-profit, banking, and educational organizations, including Nokia, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, University of Washington, Microsoft, Expedia, and JP Morgan Chase.  Edith holds a B.A from the University of Michigan with a double major in Communications and Spanish.

Kristin Westby, Project Manager

Kristin Westby joined Recruiting Toolbox with more than 10 years of Recruiting and Human Resources experience with AT&T Wireless and Cingular Wireless. She wore many hats during periods of rapid growth in these wireless businesses, including roles as a Recruiter, Staffing Manager, and HR Manager for groups like E-Commerce, Product and Technology Development, Customer Equipment Supply Chain, IT, Facilities, Business Markets Group and Marketing Operations.

Kristin is a member of SHRM, has been certified in Employee Relations Law, and is a Targeted Selection Interview Trainer. She graduated with a degree in Business from Washington State University.